Describes how the Gaimusho police became deeply involved in the surveillance and suppression of the Korean independence movement in exile throughout Chinese treaty ports and the Manchurian frontier during the 1920s and 1930s. This book offers an interpretation of Japanese expansionism.
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…being invested all round the world in building global brands and organisations. But where are the global leaders who will lead them? Leaders who can cross cultural boundaries: between east and west, and north and south; between faiths and beliefs; between public, private and voluntary sectors; and…
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WHEN TRUTH AND JUSTICE ARE NO LONGER BLACK AND WHITE ISSUES . . . Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father . . . Eaten up with bitterness, he blames Sephy for the terrible…
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…"West" and "East," the work identifies, interrogates, and challenges a particular, enduring, violent inheritance â what it means to cross over a border â from the classical origins of Western political thought. The study has two parts. The first is an effort to work within…
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How serious are the threats to our environment? This book observes that the environmental community has grown in strength and sophistication, but the environment has continued to decline, to the point that we are at the edge of catastrophe.
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…that the environmental community has grown in strength and sophistication, but the environment has continued to decline, to the point that we are at the edge of catastrophe. This work contends that this situation is a severe indictment of the economic and political system we call modern capitalism.
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A travel writer describes in detail forty of the world's most singular and offbeat travel adventures, from paddling by sea kayak around the fjords of Greenland to an elephant safari through Botswana, detailing tour outfitters, gear, health tips, and more.
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…made a mistake. The news was that he was taking his army from York to Chester by crossing the Pennines in the winter. The young hoodsman, Raynar of the Peaks, raced home to the Peaks Forest. William was about to cross his peaks, his backyard, and to do that he must use the old Roman street through
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The final offensives of the Second World War â Arnhem, the Rhine crossing and the invasion of Germany â provide war-shattered settings for John Prebbleâ s novel, The Edge of Darkness. In this, the most intimately experience of all his books, he records the feelings and reactions (seldom heroic)…
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WHEN TRUTH AND JUSTICE ARE NO LONGER BLACK AND WHITE ISSUES . . . Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father . . . Jude is a Nought. Eaten up with bitterness, he blames Sephy for…
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Hatch Lincoln was a NOC (no official cover) assassin for the CIA. He was the most feared assassin in the world. When he was double crossed by someone in the CIA, he started his own business of providing Intelligence to governments. He hired some exceptionally talented individuals who developed…
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Theres something fascinating about border towns. Who hasnt crossed the line into another state to buy fireworks, gamble, or even to get married? Here are border towns with names as unique as the places themselves, names that bridge the boundaries. Robert D. Temple brings you a quirky, fascinating,…
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In April 1951, at the height of the Korean War, Chinese troops advanced south of the 38th parallel towards a strategic crossing-point of the Imjin River on the invasion route to the South Korean capital of Seoul. This title describes the fighting, brutal captivity and courageous endurance of those…
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…farm, until he discovers that the King's enemies want to capture him. Quinn is forced to go on the run, taking to the high seas once more. Can he survive when he is double-crossed and left for dead? BEYOND THE EDGE OF THE MAP is another thrilling adventure from A.L. Tait in the bestselling Mapm
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Talented historian Maya Jasanoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire. It is not about conquest - but rather a collection of startling and fascinating personal accounts of cross-cultural exchange from those who found themselves on the edges of Empire.
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…three killers to hunt - and one to escape. Three killers are on the rampage, and the body count is rising.Pulled three ways by the different investigations, Alex Cross is under more pressure than ever before - and a crisis at home that threatens to tear his family apart pushes him close to the edge.More

…novel in the bestselling Alex Cross series Detective Alex Cross has three killers to hunt â and one to escape. Washington D.C. is on edge. Three killers are on the rampage, and the body count is rising. Pulled three ways by the different investigations, Alex Cross is under more pressure than ever…
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Some lines should never be crossed â Šunless it's wickedly worth it The moment he meets sublime coding prodigy Lily Gracen, Caleb Steele knows his â never get involved with a clientâ rule is going to be broken. But not until he stops her stalker. Caleb might be in charge of Lilyâ s safety, but…
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When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast, she remembers playing on the…
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The introduction of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in southern Africa was based on an enchanting promise: simultaneously contributing to global biodiversity conservation initiatives, regional peace and integration, and the sustainable socio-economic development of rural communities.…
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Just when Alex Cross thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game - this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington, D.C., have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like…
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Welcome to Coopers Hollow. Its not your ordinary small town. Youre just passing through a little Indiana town in the 1950s when your car breaks down. What to do? Fortunately, a helpful old fellow offers to take you in hand. Hell direct you to the service station. Show you the town. Introduce its…
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Sephy is a dark-skinned Cross in a society where people are judged by their colour and Crosses have the power. But after terrible disagreements with her family, Sephy is alone with her mixed-race baby. The baby's Nought father is dead - and his brother wants to kill her. Can she protect herself and…
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…offers a gold credit card to a dog? For Channel 4's Economics Editor Faisal Islam, these are examples of nations, institutions, and individuals crossing the 'default line', the point at which the optimism of economic boom flips into fiscal madness. Having exposed the Icelandic banking crisis,…
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…conquest â but rather a collection of startling and fascinating personal accounts of cross-cultural exchange from those who found themselves on the edges of Empire. A Palladian mansion filled with Western art in the centre of old Calcutta, the Mughal Emperorâ s letters in an archive in the Fren
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…library of bright and cheery designs. The patterns are simple, quick to stitch, and easy to use in multiple ways. A single design can be used to edge a table cloth or combined with other patterns to make a sampler. This inspiring cross-stitch sourcebook presents more than 200 beautiful floral…
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…a particularly sharp problem for Christian theologians, for whom the idea of the person as a Christian self must be central. In this book John Meech addresses this problem by means of a theological hermeneutics that brings together cutting edge scholarship in biblical interpretation and constructive
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Few migrations are as visually stunning as that of the Christmas Island crab. Crawl alongside one particular crab as it makes its way to the water's edge and marvel at this small creature's big, life-changing journey.
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This short story will introduce you to my challenges that came to me in my teens. If any one person had to deal with just one of these extraordinary circumstances it would of been enough to send them over the edge.More

The Concord Reference Edition offers a wealth of reference material - a glossary, concordance, dictionary and maps. Bold-figure cross-references link passages of the text without cluttering the page. This Bible is bound in black goatskin leather, edge-lined for extra suppleness.
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…waterway after the end of the war, in 1805, when the first bridge was completed across the river. This title tracks the founding of the towns and villages along the water's edge and the development of technologies such as steam and internal combustion that demanded different ways to cross the river.
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…their executives to rise above divisional turf battles, mayors try to cope with gangs in conflict, and leaders of many countries face the realities of sectarian violence. Crossing the Divide introduces cutting-edge research and insight into these age-old problems. Edited by Todd Pittinsky of Harvar
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…an attractive combination of features in an easily readable personal-size reference edition. The text is printed on India paper with art-gilt edges in single column paragraph style with cross-references in the outer margin. The Bible is fully sewn and bound in black edge-lined goatskin leather.
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This edition has established itself as an excellent Bible for study, with cross-references, maps and a glossary. The Bible text is attractively laid out, with generously sized type and line spacing. It is bound in top-quality cowhide leather and edge-lined, resulting in exceptional suppleness and…
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…entirely new setting of the ESV, in a single-column format with generous 9-point type. The Bibles has full cross-references, 15 colour maps and a concordance. It is printed on India paper with art-gilt edges and has two ribbons. It is bound in black goatskin leather, edge-lined for extra suppleness.
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…special edition of the NKJV, with wide margins and extra study features. It has red-letter text, cross-references, extra ruled pages for notes and 15 maps. Bound in fine goatskin leather edge-lined for extra suppleness, it has two ribbon markers, a presentation page and art-gilt page edges.More

The Concord Reference Edition offers a wealth of reference material - a glossary, concordance, dictionary and maps. It has red letter text for the words of Christ, and bold-figure cross-references link passages of the text without cluttering the page. This Bible is bound in black goatskin leather,…
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A special Cambridge edition of the New American Standard Bible, with wide margins and extra study features. This edition has red-letter text, cross-references, an extensive concordance, extra ruled pages for notes and fifteen maps. It is bound in black goatskin leather, edge-lined for extra…
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…law, a young couple strives to put their lives back together in an uncertain world. Johnny Boxer is about to cross the line. He is broke, a hundred miles from home, and living on the edge of right and wrong. With a paper gun stu?ed into the waistband of his pants, he walks into a small-town Dairy…
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The snow forms the beginning of a near vertical chute that falls at least a thousand feet. My feet, shaking, manage to hug the thin edge of solid rock. I feel my heart creep to my throat and warm sweat drip down my back, defying the subzero Arctic air. Somehow I reach a plateau and think the worst…
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Medical therapy, research and technology enable us to make our bodies, or parts of them, available to others in an increasing number of ways. This is the case in organ, tissue, egg and sperm donation as well as in surrogate motherhood and clinical research. Bringing together leading scholars working…
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Cross-Border Collaborative Journalism is a detailed guide to transnational reporting, a cutting-edge journalistic strategy. In the twenty-first century, the most pressing political and social issues, such as financial crises, wealth inequality, migration flows and environmental collapse, transcend…
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The only series available to explore cutting-edge research in chemical physics, Advances in Chemical Physics, Quantum Information and Computation for Chemistry, Volume 154 focuses on liquid polymorphism, with a generous cross-section of research that questions established thinking.
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This edited volume provides a cross-section of the cutting-edge ways in which archaeologists are developing new approaches to their work with communities and other stakeholder groups who have special interest in the uses in the past.
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With a particular focus on the complexities of cross-national, comparative survey research, explored by a team of international experts at local and national levels, this exciting new handbook provides readers with a cutting-edge resource.
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